GamesDay Koln (Gurzenich)

Cruised up to GD Koln this weekend. They were having it in an old castle/turned conference hall called Gurzenich.

Naturally they had the Apocalypse preview table, at first I thought the Baneblade was just a leman russ until I noticed it was surrounded by Land Raiders. The Ridiculous apoc templates were pretty impressive (I think they actually are the size of a pie )

They had a few new releases laying around, really liked the new Ogryns (maybe somebody will use them now) and the chaos minis. I got no Idea what the hell the Nurgle Baneblade is doing, but it seemed like a conversion and looked hella cool. I'm also pretty curious about the land raider with 5x Twin-Linked Lascannons

They had some pretty nice Golden Deamon Minis, but this had to be my Favorite, I mean that's just cool

It was nice... albeit a bit crowdy. I mean, 2 hours for Forgeworld stuff... just to take good look at the models... meh. But as I was in line anyway, I picked up my reservation at the counter instead of the reservation pickup point.

Indeed, those apocalypse templates are rediculous. I mean, if a template can easily cover an entire squad of models...

Didn't really see much of the Apocalypse rules in action though. Bit of a shame. I did however look through a copy of the Apoc. rulesbook. Rules for the Baneblade and the Hellhammer variant both costed double the amount a normal Land raider costs. Oh, and there is even a model in the rules that costs 5 times the amount of that same baneblade...

I read some rules for the SM council (don't know if it's posted yet) but basically they give a different sort of stratagem each. So one gives a bombardment and then other one something else etc.

The templates are insane, during the demo game the baneblade destroyed 2 chaos landraiders with a single shot from it's main cannon.
Models were taking of the table in dozens when those big pies flew around.

Got also a sneakpeak into the apocalpyse codex, damn do warengine become scray.
Those of you with a warhound titan from FW will be pleased, all of it's weapon got a boost in range or damage potential and some got both.

There's also rules for the warlord titan and it's stats are scary.
With that thing on the field you'll be running to get within it's minium range of 24" to not get blown to hell.